On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Pieter Praet <pieter at praet.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 11:47:25 +0300, Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria at
> verdurent.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am wondering how developers on this list handle the case of grabbing
>> a patch series posted to the list and using something like git-am to
>> apply it to their local trees.
>
> See id:"m2vd3p3u78.fsf at kcals.maillard.im"
>
>> Several patches in the series could have replies to them and hence
>> they need to be filtered out.
>>
>> e.g. I use notmuch show --output=mbox thread:000000000000eb4e to get
>> the basic series. But I'd appreciate any tips on filtering out the
>> replies.
>
> Something like this might work:
>
> ?noreplieskthxbye() {
> ? ? ?thread_id=${1}
> ? ? ?target_dir=/tmp/${thread_id}
> ? ? ?test -d ${target_dir} && echo "Patch queue dirty. Remove ${target_dir}"
> && return 1
> ? ? ?mkdir -p ${target_dir}
> ? ? ?notmuch show --format=mbox ${thread_id} | git mailsplit -o${target_dir}
> ? ? ?grep -l "^diff --git" ${target_dir}/* | xargs git am -3
> ? ? ?rm -rf ${target_dir} # "Danger, Will Robinson!"
> ?}
>
> ?noreplieskthxbye thread:000000000000eb4e
>
> But I'd be suprised beyond belief if there weren't a *sane* way to do
> this. I might also need some coffee first...
I haven't found a 'sane way' yet. Your scripting hack looks like a
good way to start though.
